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Yasmin Christina Da Silva Efigenio - What In the World - Series 11, episode 1 Black Genocide in Brazil Image Name: Yasmin Christina Da Silva Efigenio - What In the World - Series 11, episode 1 Black Genocide in Brazil
Guilherme de Oliveira Mascarenhas What In the World - Series 11, episode 1 Black Genocide in Brazil Image Name: Guilherme de Oliveira Mascarenhas What In the World - Series 11, episode 1 Black Genocide in Brazil

What in the World returns for an eleventh series on RTÉ One.

Episode 1 of 4

Black Genocide in Brazil”

Brazil is steeped in violence. According a report by the Brazilian Forum for Public Security there were 58,383 violent deaths in 2015. And young black people aged between 14 and 29 are the most likely the victims of that violence. A 2017 United Nations report concluded from its analysis of Brazil’s death toll that a young black man dies every 23minutes in Brazil, a black youth is twelve times more likely to be murdered that a white youth. Peadar King goes to São Paulo to meet with some of the people most affected by this violence in what many people now regard as a genocide.